This brand new 7-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded project builds on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “Age-Friendly Communities” global initiative. Our conceptualization of promising practices in aging assumes that they “add life to years”, rejecting so-called apocalyptic notions of population aging. “Communities with communities” The age-friendly strategy operates mostly at the city-community … Read more Project

Project Director Tamara Daly is a Professor at York’s School of Health Policy & Management; and is appointed to graduate programs in Health Policy & Equity; Critical Disability Studies; and Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies. Daly is Director of the York University Centre for Aging Research and Education and CIHR Research Chair in Gender, Care … Read more Team

We are investigating age-friendly “communities within communities” at the individual, organizational, city, country and global levels. Twelve international city case sites have been selected for their diversity and their age-friendly initiatives. Seven Canadian Cities: Toronto Ottawa Halifax Yellowknife Lethbridge Victoria Montreal Five International Cities: Bergen Copenhagen Melbourne Auckland Taipei

The meaning or lack of meaning that old age takes on in any given society puts that whole society to the test, since it is this that reveals the meaning or lack of meaning of the entirety of the life leading to that old age. In order to judge our own society we have to compare the solutions it has chosen with those adopted by others through space and time.